BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay

The BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay is the British Academy Film Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. It has been awarded since 1984, when the original category (BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay) was split into two awards, the other being the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Winners and nominees

1980s

1983: The King of Comedy – Paul D. Zimmerman

• Local Hero – Bill Forsyth
• Trading Places – Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod
• Zelig – Woody Allen

1984: Broadway Danny Rose – Woody Allen

• The Big Chill – Barbara Benedek and Lawrence Kasdan
• Comfort and Joy – Bill Forsyth
• A Private Function – Alan Bennett

1985: The Purple Rose of Cairo – Woody...... ...
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